HADOOP-8174. Remove confusing comment in Path#isAbsolute() (Contributed by Suresh Srinivas)

(cherry picked from commit 0daa5ada68)
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Vinayakumar B 2015-05-14 14:17:36 +05:30
parent 4b5915be9f
commit 085841d9ac
2 changed files with 5 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
HADOOP-11361. Fix a race condition in MetricsSourceAdapter.updateJmxCache.
(Brahma Reddy Battula via ozawa)
HADOOP-8174. Remove confusing comment in Path#isAbsolute()
(Suresh Srinivas via vinayakumarb)
Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
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@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
/** Names a file or directory in a {@link FileSystem}.
* Path strings use slash as the directory separator. A path string is
* absolute if it begins with a slash.
* Path strings use slash as the directory separator.
*/
@Stringable
@InterfaceAudience.Public
@ -312,14 +311,7 @@ public class Path implements Comparable {
return uri.getPath().startsWith(SEPARATOR, start);
}
/** True if the path component of this URI is absolute. */
/**
* There is some ambiguity here. An absolute path is a slash
* relative name without a scheme or an authority.
* So either this method was incorrectly named or its
* implementation is incorrect. This method returns true
* even if there is a scheme and authority.
*/
/** True if the path is not a relative path and starts with root. */
public boolean isAbsolute() {
return isUriPathAbsolute();
}